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The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2009
von: Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Konstantina E. Botsiou
Springer-Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9783642006210 , 113 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: DRM
Preis: 96,29 EUR
Acknowledgments
6
Contents
7
Contributors
9
Abbreviations
11
Introduction
12
Transforming South-East Europe: A Challenge for Smart Power
20
Greece–France: A New Alliance
26
The Czech Presidency of the European Union: A Return to Roots
31
Quo Vadis, Europe?
36
The ‘Promise’ of the Lisbon Treaty: A Critical Reading
44
Introduction
44
The Lisbon ‘Promise’
45
Theoretical Projection
47
Interim Conclusion
48
References
49
Climate Change and Its Effects in Greece
50
Union for the Mediterranean, or Nicolas Sarkozy’s Voluntarism in International Relations
56
From the Mediterranean Union to the Union for the Mediterranean: Voluntarism Faces Realism
57
The Functioning of the Union for the Mediterranean: The Necessary Institutionalisation of Voluntarism
60
References
62
Does Too Much Regulation Stifle Employment?
63
A Simple Methodology
64
Concluding Remarks
70
Annex A: The Index of Economic Freedom
72
Annex B: Doing Business
73
References
73
Greek Ideals in the American Democracy
74
The Miracle and the Defects
79
The Selection of the Vice President
80
The Duration of the Lame Duck Period
81
Euro–Atlantic Relations Following the Election of Barack Obama in the United States
84
The Ideological Construct of ‘Globalisation’
84
The Atlantic Breach and European Dissension
85
American Inconsistencies and Deadlocks
86
A New Rapprochement of the Two Sides of the Atlantic
87
The Return of the Nation State
88
Towards a New Structure
89
The New, Expanded Euro–Atlantic Community
89
The Forgotten Crisis: Rising Food Prices
92
The Causes
93
The Solutions
94
References
96
On the Road to Damascus: Towards a New European Policy on the Middle East?
97
The Unrest of the 1960s: Common Grounds and Legacy
102
Common Grounds
102
The Legacy
104
The Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin
106
Index
111
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